Global Mediations of Time

Abstract

Capitalism and communication are joined symbiotically. As mentioned previously, media-entertainment and ICT corporations are major sectors of global capital accumulation and infrastructural facilitators for the globalization of finance, production, distribution and consumption. This chapter foregrounds the communicational dimensions of global capitalism with reference to the epistemes of time reckoning, temporality and coevalness/allochronism. I will argue that manifestations and mediations of instantaneity/simultaneity or real-time are ideologically central to global capitalism, that globally mediated representations of immediacy and present-ness reify capitalist denials of coevalness and that ICTs have also facilitated counter-mediations of global activism and counter-representations of the global.